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Photograph of Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill is a historic mill on the North Branch Milwaukee River in Gooseville, Wisconsin. The mill was built in 1879 to replace an 1855 mill that had burned down.”

Wikipedia article Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1879.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Silver Creek-Cascade Rd., Adell, 53001
  • When was it listed? December 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. 19th Century Grist and Flouring Mills of Sheboygan County TR
  • Town. Sherman town
  • When was it built? 1879
  • National Register reference number. 84000673 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

9 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill between 2014 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 July 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2183
31 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBATAVIA 2
6 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBATAVIA
29 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources755
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1378
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1330
15 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1178
21 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources930

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cascade PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clump PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Skelton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southwest Area OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adell, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 funnel cloud, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019HailAdell-no account filed
April 2018HailAdell-no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudAdell-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudAdell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Charles T. and Gertrude Rietz House2.1 miles2018
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church4.9 miles1983
Onion River Flouring Mill/Grist Mill7.3 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000673 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheboygan CountyAll 60 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.